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Mandriva Linux Whiffs on Virtualization Integration
With its Corporate Server 4, Mandriva is challenging the Linux data center operating systems from Red Hat and Novell by offering broader support for virtualization technologies. It’s a solid-sounding plan, but eWEEK Labs’ tests of CS 4 show that it’s longer on ambition than execution. Mandriva’s CS 4 is unique in its support for three…
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Vendors Aim for Easier Virtualization
With virtualization becoming more mainstream in the enterprise, businesses now are looking for easier and more flexible ways to deploy and manage their environments. VMware, Cassatt and Surgient are rolling out offerings designed to address those demands. The moves come at a time when enterprises are beginning to move their virtualization environments from testing to…
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Microsoft Buys DesktopStandard
Microsoft has acquired DesktopStandard, a developer of group policy-based enterprise desktop management products, in a move designed help customers leverage the value of policy-based management and their investments in Active Directory, the two companies said Oct. 2. Larry Orecklin, general manager, Microsoft’s Windows Enterprise Management division, said that the acquisition enhances the company’s ability to…
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Beceem Announces a WiMax Milestone
The Beceem MS120 Mobile WiMax chip set has proven its ability to work with a variety of commercial base station vendors in a formal test, called a “plugfest,” at Bechtel Labs in Frederick, Md. In a test that ended Oct. 1, the Beceem reference design worked with vendors including Alcatel, Alvarion, Motorola and Navini. The…
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Cyber-Thieves Targeting Smaller Retailers
As the established large e-commerce sites pour millions of dollars into security and enterprise-league hardened point-of-sale systems, cyber-crooks have been giving more attention to much smaller and less well-protected merchants. Those smaller merchants can’t even necessarily protect themselves by opting to not have a Web site, as the thieves are grabbing credit card information as…
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Borland Bakes Quality into Development Cycle
Borland Software announced Borland Lifecycle Quality Management Oct. 2, in an effort to enable enterprises to build quality into every facet of an application’s development process. Rob Cheng, director of developer solution at the Cupertino, Calif., company, said the new Borland LQM solution will mean that quality is tested for more frequently in the development…
